Producing jaw dropping cars comes down to
imagination, and as a builder, you’ve either got it or you don’t. For Eckert’s
Rod & Custom shop of Northern Oregon, a customer brought them a project on
commission that required heaps of imagination, as they were tasked to build the
one-of-a-kind Ford Mustang Mach Forty, and truly knocked the project out of the
park.
With the customer’s desire to meld the classic
design cues of a 1969 Mach 1 with the modern performance characteristics of a
2006 GT40, Mike Miernik came through with an awesome concept model before David
Eckert and his team fully executed on the build.
The crew at Hardison Metal
Shaping sculpted the beautiful body lines based on the design sketches before
Eckert dumped a 4-Liter Wipple on mid-mounted 5.4-Liter Flex Fuel V8 of the
mashed up Mustang, a powertrain capable of delivering 850 hp to the rear
wheels.
Easily seen as a crowd favorite and best in show winner, the Mach 40
was also featured in Gran Turismo Sport after its debut at SEMA in 2012.
